[Ves] [Paraview] VES and Kiwi open source release

[Pat Marion]

Hi Mathieu,

The use of eigen3 does not affect the license of ves.  The eigen developers
have written a FAQ to address this point-

    http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Licensing_FAQ

Thanks for your question, I'll add this clarification to the VES wiki.

Pat


On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <
mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Pat Marion <pat.marion at kitware.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi VTK developers,
> >
> > I'm emailing to let you know about the open source release of VES and
> Kiwi.
> ...
> > Happy coding!  (for best visibility, send ves and kiwi related questions
> to
> > ves at public.kitware.com instead of the vtk mailing lists)
>
> [done]
>
> Could someone please clarify the situation with eigen3. eigen3 is
> licensed under GPL-2+ or LGPL-3.0+. I believe for building proprietary
> app the LGPL-3.0+ license is more adapted. Reading it reveals :
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html#section3
> and
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html#section4
>
> It looks as if template code from eigen3 (vesEigen.*) is being used
> with more than just 10 lines of code. correct ?
>
> If so does this means that the whole VES is released under a more
> restrictive GPL-2+ or LGPL-3+ compared to the Apache 2.0 (not a a big
> deal to build shared libs, but just need confirmation).
>
> Thanks for clarifications,
> --
> Mathieu
>
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